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We conducted a representative survey of Mogadishu's population—the first in 25 years—in March 2012. We overcame challenges related to lack of data and poor security with the use of remote sensing, the systematic development of local contacts through the Somali diaspora, the flexible deployment of staff, and mobile technology. This article demonstrates the value of using transparent sampling methods to produce reliable estimates for humanitarian response and policy makers. The article also highlights shortcomings and lessons learned from our approach, with the goal of improving future data collection efforts in insecure environments.

Disaster mental health handouts, guides, and other information for disaster mental health workers, and victims, following natural or man-made disasters. Information for disaster workers, clinicians, researchers, students.

Japanese prime minister: "The level seems very high, and there is still a very high risk of more radiation coming out," http://is.gd/5j2oDE

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EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 16,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.

“Thousands of Egypt’s poor are trapped by poverty and neglect that could ultimately end in their deaths,” Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa program, said in a press statement issued yesterday.

A woman in the fifth phase of the development contacted authorities and claimed that rocks had fallen and injured her. The local council countered her claim stating that she had made the complaint in an effort to be relocated and that she was injured during an altercation with a neighbor.

Manshiet Nasser is among the oldest shanty towns in Cairo. Are housing problems, asks Amira El-Noshokaty, finally coming to an end there

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Dictators have similar style in addressing the public.

Psychosocial intervention in mass violence and disasters